To be going to: future grammar for travel & adventure

🧳 To Be Going To (Future Plans)

🏛️ Travel & Tourism

🎒 Planning a Trip

A2 ESL lesson "To be going to" — future plans grammar with travel and European cities

Travel and City Vocabulary

The lesson starts with choosing between exciting European tours. Students learn travel and city-related vocabulary (e.g. cruising, include, landmark, iconic) and connect it to real contexts. Matching, audio, and fill-in-the-gap exercises help students activate and retain new words.

Listening and Reading: A European Tour

Learners follow a tour guide's audio story that takes them through places like Vienna, Prague, and Barcelona. They answer comprehension questions, fill in missing words, and practise using phrases in context (e.g. go sightseeing, take photos, have a look around).

"To Be Going To" for Future Plans: Exercises

The grammar focus is on "to be going to" for future plans. Students study affirmative, negative, and question forms, using grammar tables, sentence transformations, gap-fills, and drills to reinforce accuracy and fluency.

Speaking and Writing: Your Travel Plans

Students answer personalised questions (e.g. What are you going to pack?) and take part in dialogue-building activities, using the target structure. They also write and record sentences describing their own future plans.